Wanted: Teachers to work in Tangerang<\/p>\n
Multa Fidrus, Tangerang<\/p>\n
Tangerang regency is now in dire need of more teachers to fill
\npositions that will be left vacant by about 3,000 teachers in the
\nnext three to five years, says a regency official.<\/p>\n
Head of the regency's education agency Mas Iman Kusnandar said
\non Saturday that half of the nearly 6,000 teachers at elementary,
\njunior high schools and high schools would turn 55 soon, the
\nretirement age for civil servants.<\/p>\n
\"The number doesn't include hundreds of teachers who have
\nretired over the past few years ... but the central government
\nhas only assigned 75 new teachers each year to replace them,\" he
\ntold The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
\"The possible lack of school teachers is a real concern
\nbecause we fear it could, in turn, reduce the quality of
\neducation in Tangerang.\"<\/p>\n
According to Iman, Regent Ismet Iskandar had asked the central
\ngovernment to assign 1,000 more teachers each year to the regency
\nover the next three years, but so far only 300 had been promised.<\/p>\n
Iman explained that the ideal number of teachers for the 974
\nelementary schools in the regency should be 8,766, where each
\nschool could have eight teachers and a principal.<\/p>\n
\"Right now we only have 3,500 teachers for the elementary
\nschools. It means that we still need 5,266 more teachers to meet
\nthe ideal number, not to mention how many more we need to teach
\nat junior highs and high schools,\" he added.<\/p>\n
The Tangerang municipality administration will pay for 48
\npercent of the regency's Rp 568 billion budget this year for
\neducation development. The regency administration also committed
\nmoney to improving education by renovating school buildings and
\nincreasing the teachers' monthly salary.<\/p>",
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